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That's pretty much it in a nutshell. Bill O'Reilly said after the election that if the economy goes into the crapper within the next 4 years, it could spell doom for the Democrat party. I say pshaw. As long as the GOP maintains control of the House, they will be scapegoated with anything and everything that goes wrong. As long as Obama has the media in his back pocket, which was painfully evident yesterday, the Democrats will be held blameless for anything that goes wrong. There is no denying this.

The American Left: Where everything is politics and politics is everything.

The fiscal cliff describes "the shock to the economy when we cut the deficit in half."

Due to the deal that was struck, Defence and Medicare get deep, automatic cuts. I'm not happy about the "automatic defence cuts" but I tend to think federal deficit is probably a bigger national security threat at this point than state actors. This was the Sword of Damocles we hoped that we could hang over Congress to force them to balance the budget, but they haven't done so... and probably never will at this point until we replace the lot of them.

I think NJCF is right; the Dems are pretty good at positioning the GOP as the bad guys. The 1995 government shutdown is now fixed in people's minds as "The Republicans shut down the government because Newt Gingrich got a bad seat on Air Force One."

"Today, [the American voter] chooses his rulers as he buys bootleg whiskey, never knowing precisely what he is getting, only certain that it is not what it pretends to be." - H.L. Mencken

They deserve some of the blame. They also deserve some of the blame for the overall mess we are in. We will never get good leadership when our first instinct is to hand out blame by party id.

Bring on the fiscal cliff.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it....

That's pretty much it in a nutshell. Bill O'Reilly said after the election that if the economy goes into the crapper within the next 4 years, it could spell doom for the Democrat party. I say pshaw. As long as the GOP maintains control of the House, they will be scapegoated with anything and everything that goes wrong. As long as Obama has the media in his back pocket, which was painfully evident yesterday, the Democrats will be held blameless for anything that goes wrong. There is no denying this.

Geez...
No offense here, but that is like predicting the sun will rise tomorrow or that it is cold in Alaska in the dead of winter.

Yeah, we'll get blamed for whatever comes down the pike.
But we Republicans have done a fair share of damage to ourselves, so we made it pretty easy for the Democrats. They can run successfully in a lot of areas simply by not being a Republican.